Highlighting the importance of access to data in achieving faster growth, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar has said that India needs to adopt a middle path with regard to data protection.
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman said ‘I think there is a midway that will make for digital cooperation as opposed to data protection.’ He further said that India would be the creator of the largest amount of data going forward and also added that the country has something like data nationalism and that may be the anti-thesis of global growth of digital economy.
Meanwhile, India is in the process of coming out with a law on data protection. The draft personal data protection bill was prepared by a high-level panel headed by Justice B N Srikrishna. The draft bill moots seeking ‘explicit consent’ for processing 'sensitive personal information' like religious or political beliefs and biometric details.
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